Ian is a Research Fellow of the IFS and a Professor of Economics at UCL. He joined UCL in 1991 and has been attached to the IFS since 1990. His research at the IFS includes work on household welfare measurement and distributional analysis, consumption and demand behaviour, attitudes to public spending, political economy and the economics of immigration.
Education
PhD Economics, Nuffield College, Oxford, 1989
PhM Economics, Nuffield College, Oxford, 1987
BA Philosophy, Politics and Economics, Brasenose College, Oxford, 1985
In any policy-orientated study of family welfare, it is inevitable that some comparison of welfare between households with different compositions will be required, and the theory of (adult) equivalence scales aims to formalise the way in which these comparisons may be made
